Today I continue to approach the concept of Ereignis: The time of no-time in the hypertext seems to be very close to this notion of unexpected I try to analyse when I'm reading texts about Heidegger's Ereignis.
In the late lecture 'Time and Being', Heidegger tries to provide some clarification of this notion of Ereignis. He is concerned that it will simply be thought of as a definition of being: 'Being as propriation'.
He suggests that "formerly, philosophy thought being in terms of beings as idea, as energeia, as actualitas, as will - and now, one might think, as propriation. Understood in this way, propriation means a transformed interpretation of being which, if it is correct, represents a continuation of metaphysics" (Zur Sache des Denkens S. 22; Time and Being p. 21).
To see it the other way round, that is, as 'propriation as being', is closer, but still cheap.
Rather, "being proves to be destiny's [Geschickes] gift of presence, the gift granted by the giving of time. The gift of presence is the property of propriation [Die Gabe von Anwesen ist Eigentum desEreignens]. Being vanishes in propriation".
In the seminar discussion of this text he clarifies still further: "propriation is to be thought in such a way that it can neither be retained as being nor as time.Is, so to speak, a 'neutrale tantum', the neutral 'and' in the title 'Time and Being' (ZSD 46-7, TB 43).
"In the phrase 'being as propriation', the word 'as' now means: being, letting-presence sent [geschickt] inpropriating, time brought about [gereicht] in propriating. Time and being appropriated in propriation.
And propriation itself? Can we say anything more about it?
